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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.

Sophia Loren

A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Fashion Purpose Service View Woman
True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Happiness Impossible Solitude True Wisdom
You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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Acceptance Generosity Happiness Life Notice Satisfaction Yourself
The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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Fountain Mindset Yourself Youth
Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Destroy Explanation Myself Transformation
If you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
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Different Difficult Feeling People Root Yourself
I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Memories Pain Past People Person Understand Yourself
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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Conversation Enjoyment Life People Positive Thinking Yourself
It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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Education Learning Mistake Yourself
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Children Mom Thinking Twice
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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Inspirational Interest Life Mistake One Liner Price
And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
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Beautiful Myself Positive Sad Thinking Walk
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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Conversation Ignorance Virtue
The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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Angry Build Love Man Relationship
If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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Beautiful Cry Eyes Yourself
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
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Cook Goodness Home Love Yourself
You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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Believe Deep Heart Learning Value
Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
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Appearance Sex Thinking Yourself
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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Advantage Big Born Myself Poverty Wisdom
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
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Body Lips Myself Quality Sex Thinking
I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
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Eat Fruit Meat Myself Sweet
I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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Believe Earth Miracle Mission Ourselves Strong
Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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Aspiration Feeling Jealous Love Misery Wasted Time
The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Appearance Beautiful Cry Eyes Woman
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Exercise Grace Street Walk Yourself
Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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Anxiety Fashion Movie Myself Original Poor Profit Work

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